Crime Quotes · Page 103

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

— Emmanuel Teney

Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

— Marion Barry

What pleases us is that people are realising that punishment is inevitable for those who don't respect the law.

— Elvira Nabiullina

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

— Evel Knievel

Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

— Kamala Harris

“The biggest prison in the universe is caring about what other people think of you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

For A Real Humans. Repentance is the greatest punishment

— Mak_786

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

— Mark Twain

I've definitely become more aware of the penal system and more aware of what life could be like inside a prison.

— Dean Winters

“When you have to hide who you really are to the world, you create a shell around yourself over time. A painted…

— Selena Kitt

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

— Gerald R. Ford

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So…

— Sue Grafton

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

— Pawan Kalyan

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only…

— Pete Earley

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because…

— Howie Carr

“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are…

— Hélène Cixous

ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing…

— Ambrose Bierce

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd…

— Neil Gaiman

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them…

— James Monroe

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the…

— Nelson Mandela

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers…

— Denise Mina

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not…

— Seth

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can only rise so far by climbing on others’ shoulders, you know.”

— B. Barmanbek

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

— Melissa Bean

Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the free will to select his course.

— Clarence Darrow

Now, Hillary's [Clinton] more than that, she's an actual - she could be a crime boss.

— Rush Limbaugh

Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

— Pope Francis

When you are given immunity that means that you've probably committed a crime.

— Michael T. Flynn

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

— Penn Jillette

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

— Anonymous

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.

— Anonymous

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

— Oliver Goldsmith

As a former New Yorker, I understand crime's hold over an electorate's emotions.

— Jonathan Capehart

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

— Karin Fossum

“Criminals should be hung like championship banners—proudly, and in an effort to sell tickets.”

— Jarod Kintz

You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.

— John Waters

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

— Julius Caesar